Groundhog Day----not like the Judith Miller theme

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AT least the NYTimes is sounding the alarm with IraN--
compare this with how Judith Miller advance the WH argument with IraQ!!


"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/opinion/20sat1.html?oref=login&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fEditorials"

November 20, 2004

EDITORIAL

Groundhog Day

Btop us if you've heard this one before. The Bush administration creates a false sense of urgency about a nuclear menace from a Middle Eastern country. Hard-liners talk about that country's connections to terrorists. They portray European diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions as a feckless attempt to appease a rogue nation whose word can never be trusted anyway. Secretary of State Colin Powell makes ominous-sounding warnings about new intelligence, which turns out to be dubious.

That is how President Bush rushed the country into an unnecessary conflict with Iraq in his first term, and we have been seeing alarming signs of that approach all week on Iran.

Let's be cleareyed about this: Iran has an active nuclear program, has not tried terribly hard to hide it and has been dishonest in its dealings with the West. But nothing we have seen suggests some new, urgent development in Iran that would impel American officials to start talking about "the military option." In fact, the most recent developments have been encouraging. Last week, under the threat of a looming U.N. deadline, Tehran said it would freeze all uranium and plutonium processing and invite back international inspectors. ....